New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-26
progress should not be made from year 10 year In
tho good fight against bad and mdtferent milk.

| Is Cner6 any ROOO IedSou why "AA' "'~ASA~.
should treat Alderman ONen with more consid
Grafton than was accorded ,Jaehne and McCuaae
During their trials they were confded to the
shein's custody. O'Neil Is at liberty. Tn
former Is the better plan. Experience has show
that doodle Alderman is q slippery creature
Mr.. MARITIME has no right to take any chances.
The Harlem River Bridge Commissioners should
be legislated out Of Office. They have already
cost the city a great many thousands OF dollar
by reason Of their folly, and two heavy actions
for damages are now hanging over the taxpayers
on account of their business methods. Moreover
on the very day when they told the Assembly that
they had never entered into q contract with the
Union Bridge Company, the counsel for the com
pany had in his possession the papers upon which
he proposed to sue for damages One is @ contract.
signed and sealed the other is letter authoriz-
ing the company to begin work. This is an
incomprehensble state of things, and more than
warrants the extinction of the commission.
| One Of our contemporaries up the river talks
about "the aftermath of the Senatorial fight"
Aftermath is a pretty word in its place, but it is
doubtful if the attempt to utilize it for purely
political purpose will succeed.
| The President is personally responsible for the
present serious phase of the trouble with Canada.
| Indeed, he and Mr. Bayard are responsible for the
whole trouble. II they had not al the beginning
Of their Administration raised Canadian hopes by
presuming to make temporary treaty and by
promising to use their influence 30 secure COM
mission, we should not now be hearing the
Canadian cry Of broken faith. But apart from
this, il Mr.. Cleveland had used last summer the
powers vested In him and had given Canada to
understand the measure Of danger she ran by her
fragrant Outragcs. there can be doubt but that
she would have hestatcd long while before
pulling down the American flag and committing
such acts as Mr. Frye recited in the Senate. The
Administration is making q great show Of ac-
tivty to-day, but ounce OF prevention then
would have been worth pound Of cure now.
The American hog that Is found roofing in
Bismarck's garden these days need not expect to
be cOndOned. just at present the Chancellor
is in no mood to be trihed with.
In the intercourse OF nations there are two
kinds that always submit to impcstion-the very
weak and the very strong. But even the big
goodnatIred mastif can be annoyed into action
1t is because the United States is amiable
mastif that Canada persists in her offensive con-
duct She cannot be too quick however, in com
pretending the significance of the debate in the
Senate concerning Mr.. Edmundss Retaliation bill
Senator Morgan's observation that the fishermen
OF the North would find much support from the
Gulf of Mexico as from the coast OF Maine Is
worth thinking about Canada has reached the
end Of her teher She must abandon outrage and
observe the decences of international intercourse.
There Is no particular reason why gas should
not be manufactured just as cheaply in Brooklyn
as in Ncw-York Here the price is fixed by law
at y al 70 bo yipsr
money even on their enormous issue of stock
Senator Griswold has introduced u bill to fix tic |
aNimum price in Brooklyn at 5 so. The |
brooklyn companies ought to be glad to accept |
such measure.
One OF the most suggestive tables in THE |
TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1897 is the exhibit given
on pare 40 Of the classification into geographical
divisions OF the ilterae population OF the United
States. In twelve Southern and Southwestern |
States there are 4.267 1868 "iltcrates7 one-third
of whom whites. out OF an aggregate popula
ton Of li63S.036 In ten Western and North |
western States, with total population Of IL
225, 934, there only S4S.l99 "illiterates@ ; |
and the comparisons with the New England, Mid |
die and Pacific groups are equally startling. The
Almanac is designed To present within reasonable |
compass the NEST important facts of the political
year Such tables as this throw needed light |
upon controversies respecting national educat onal
measures
large amount of brilliant and exact georraph- |
ical mlsinfoImation would seem to be in the |
possession Of the Tory literary bureau OF Dublin
The Rochester Democrat reports that it regu-
larry receives n publication from the bureau
addressed To il at Rochester, y. Y, Canada
1t is strange that there should be nobody about
the bureau who is aware that Rochester being a
part of Canada. and Canada being one Of the
liulf States the letters IN. Y" in the address are
positively misleading.
The unhappy engineers in the naval service are
constantly complaining of the unjust dscrimi-
nation Of the Board OF Navigation AGAINST them.
" thin week two board Of officers has
been ordered to visit various large steel works and
machine shops in the country with view % dc
ermnnS what plant is necessary for the
of guns. There was one civil en-
yinecr with the line officers, but not single
mechanical engineer. Then board consisting of
'nc commander and two heutcnants has been
new cruisers. 1t is true that by simple tensile
est any one can learn in few hours how 10 tell
whether the material is satisfactory or not. But
he mechanical engineers, who accustomed to
he working OF metals, arc obviously the men to
% employed in such work. The majority of
hem could be depended upon to take o forge
hammer and tones and to pun the wool over the
yes Of the present board of inspectors in the
matter of bending and Gucnching tests. Queer
work. the Democratic Adminis ration continues to
make OF plain everyday. busines>lille reform.
In the course Of the debate in the Senate on the
ctaatiOn resolution Senator Vest, who was op-
osed to taking any action that squntcd in the I
Erection OF war; reminded his brother Senators
hat tho English and the Americans of one ,
loOd "Jim,' said the c0lorcd dominic to /
member of his flock who had habit of trounc-
lg his wife; Jim, you shouldn't be guilty of
uch conduct Remember jim, that man and
is wife are one Il know answered JIM
but the trouble is, dominic, that my wife ALWAYS